Chinese balloons return over the USA
A year after a Chinese spy balloon flew over the continental United States for several days and was detonated off the coast of South Carolina with an AIM-9X Sidewinder missile from a fifth-generation fighter, a new CBS News article indicates that the US military is tracking a high-altitude balloon flying over the western part of the country.
Sources familiar with the matter said the balloon was drifting towards the eastern part of the country on Friday. Earlier in the day the balloon flew over Colorado.
#BREAKING : A US Military aircraft is tracking an unidentified high-altitude balloon flying over the Western part of the United States
Currently, a US military aircraft is tracking an unidentified high-altitude balloon flying over the western part of… pic.twitter.com/7qelsYbVhE
— RAWSALERTS (@rawsalerts) February 23, 2024
It looks like a copy of the February 2023 alert
Are we really doing this AGAIN?
They have not disclosed the origin or purpose of the balloon, but this is ODDLY… pic.twitter.com/TzuHeydTZS
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 23, 2024
On February 4, 2023, a Chinese spy balloon was shot down off the coast of South Carolina. The balloon flew over the United States for days, becoming a major headache for President Biden, who faced criticism from Republicans for having allowed the balloon to float across the country.
If we look at Bloomberg data, the number of mentions of the “spyball” in corporate media headlines exploded in early February last year. It was a media frenzy and Americans focused for weeks on one thing: a Chinese spy balloon. The Chinese can spend a few tens of thousands of euros at a stretch to drive the US defense system crazy and make it spend a few hundred thousand dollars…
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